01 · Discover
We listen first.
Two weeks paired with your team. We ride along, take notes, and write a memo that names the actual problem.
BrainOn Studio · MMXXVI · Established practice
Software studiosfor compoundingteams.
We design, ship, and scale category-defining software with senior pods that take ownership of an outcome — discovery to deployment.
Practice
- Product engineering
- Design systems
- AI integration
- Platform & DX
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Trusted by
Teams that ship.
Six of forty-seven · Selected on permission, not popularity
About · Studio · Practice
A studio of builders, not subcontractors.
BrainOn is a senior-staffed software studio. We don't run discovery to win work then quietly swap in juniors. The engineers who scope your project are the engineers who ship it.
- Founded
- 2017
- Practice
- Distributed · 5 hubs
- Team
- 34 senior
- Engagement
- 8–24 weeks
Studio · Atmosphere
Three moods, one studio.
Operating principles
We work the way we wish other studios did.
- 01
Senior by default
No junior fronts. The engineers who scope the work are the engineers who ship it.
- 02
Outcome over output
We measure ourselves on what your business changes, not what we shipped this sprint.
- 03
Documented as we go
Every system we build leaves a paper trail your team can pick up the day after we leave.
- 04
Boring where it counts
We pick adventurous design and unfussy infrastructure. Operate cheaply, ship loudly.
Practice
Four disciplines. One studio.
- /01
Product engineering
Senior pods that take ownership of an outcome — discovery to deployment. TypeScript, Go, Python, the cloud you're already on.
Capabilities
- Web platforms
- API & data layers
- Realtime systems
- Migrations
- /02
Design systems
Tokenized, accessible, machine-translatable to code. Built so your team ships faster six months from now, not slower.
Capabilities
- Token architecture
- Component libraries
- Motion language
- Documentation sites
- /03
AI integration
Production LLM systems with evaluation harnesses, retrieval pipelines, and safety guardrails. Not demos. Not prototypes.
Capabilities
- Eval-driven dev
- RAG pipelines
- Agent workflows
- Cost & latency tuning
- /04
Platform & DX
Internal tools, build pipelines, and developer surfaces that make a 30-engineer team feel like 60.
Capabilities
- CI/CD pipelines
- Internal tooling
- Observability
- Docs as code
How we work
A 4-phase practice we've refined across 47 launches. Each phase has its own deliverables and exit criteria.
01 · Discover illustration
02 · Design illustration
03 · Build illustration
04 · Hand off illustration
02 · Design
We make it real.
Tokenized design systems and prototypes you can actually click. Decisions get made in the artifact, not the slide deck.
03 · Build
Senior pods, no hand-offs.
The engineers in discovery are the engineers shipping. Pull requests merge daily. Demos happen weekly.
04 · Hand off
We leave a paper trail.
Runbooks, ADRs, observability dashboards, an enabled team. The next chapter is written by you.
01 · Discover
We listen first.
Two weeks paired with your team. We ride along, take notes, and write a memo that names the actual problem.
02 · Design
We make it real.
Tokenized design systems and prototypes you can actually click. Decisions get made in the artifact, not the slide deck.
03 · Build
Senior pods, no hand-offs.
The engineers in discovery are the engineers shipping. Pull requests merge daily. Demos happen weekly.
04 · Hand off
We leave a paper trail.
Runbooks, ADRs, observability dashboards, an enabled team. The next chapter is written by you.
Selected work · 2024–2026
Tools that get used until they don't need us.
Case studies · Detail
Open any case for the full story.
- /01
Northwind · Fintech
Rebuilding the trading desk
Replaced a fragmented Java desktop with a streaming web platform. 11× faster order routing, 60% fewer support tickets.
11×
Order routing
- /02
Lumen Health · Healthcare
Patient pathways, redesigned
Re-imagined a 10-year-old EHR module as a guided-pathway interface. Average task time halved across 3,200 clinicians.
−52%
Task time
- /03
Atlas · Logistics
Routing 4M parcels a day
A new dispatcher console with live route choreography. We rebuilt the simulator and the UI in a 14-week sprint.
4M+
Daily parcels
- /04
Cipher · Security
Zero-trust admin surface
Designed and shipped the entire administrative experience for a privileged-access platform now used by 240 enterprises.
240
Enterprise tenants
- /05
Kindred · Education
An AI tutor that ships
Built the eval harness, retrieval layer, and student-facing UI for an AI tutoring product now serving 80k learners.
80k
Active learners
By the numbers
Compounding since 2017.
12yr
Average engineer tenure
47
Production launches
9
Industries served
100%
Senior staffed
Contact · Q3 2026 openings
Tell us what you're building.
We respond within 72 hours with a 2-page memo: scope, team, timeline, price. If we're not the right fit we'll say so — and tell you who is.